10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2024
The scientific species name venustulus means lovely, charming. However, the realization that Edward Japanese (1803-1854), the British naturalist, financed part of his studies with income from the slave trade made it necessary to rename the species. Apparently, this is not much of a raccoon – its closest relative is the fox.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2024
This was only my fourth encounter with the species (all on the east side). He should have visited my home last month, when both species were visiting my birdbath almost daily. He should have visited my home last month, when both species were visiting my birdbath almost daily. Two other birds, both residents, surprised us.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2021
If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Raccoon kits where they should be. Help is not just on the way, it’s here.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2021
In 2021, the American Ornithological Society announced that it has now classified the Bahama Nuthatch as a distinct species, Sitta insularis. A 1931 daily newspaper article (likely from The Philadelphia Bulletin) reported that Bond “brought back thirty species of birds never before represented in the Academy’s collections.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
The Common Pochard is listed as Vulnerable – not because it is particularly rare, but because of the rapid decline in its numbers (a decline of 50% within 10 years means a species is listed as Vulnerable – and a 50% loss in 10 years sounds quite dramatic and frightening indeed). And it does not even live in reeds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2016
Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. If you see a raccoon during the day, it must have rabies! Raccoons are nocturnal, which means they are normally active at night. The same goes for raccoons.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Within 140 ac / 60 ha of Rancho Naturalista’s Reserve, there are 500 bird species – or 55% of the nation’s total! Yet, scoring more than 700 species, Mercedes Alpizar soon became “Meche”, the bird guide that we are all familiar with. Located within its private premontane forest reserve at 3000 ft / 900 m a.s.l.
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